A
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
_Antiquarian_
AND
PICTURESQUE TOUR.
PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICOL, AT THE Shakespeare Press.
[Illustration: ANN OF BRITTANY. From an Illustrated Missal in the Royal Library at Paris.]
London. Published June 1829. by R. Jennings. Poultry.
A
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
_Antiquarian_
AND
PICTURESQUE TOUR
IN
FRANCE AND GERMANY.
BY THE REVEREND THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, D.D.
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY AT ROUEN, AND OF THE ACADEMY OF UTRECHT.
SECOND EDITION.
VOLUME II.
DEI OMNIA PLENA.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY ROBERT JENNINGS, AND JOHN MAJOR.
1829.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
CONTENTS.
VOLUME II.
LETTER I.
PARIS. _The Boulevards. Public Buildings. Street Scenery. Fountains_. 1
LETTER II.
_General Description of the Bibliotheque du Roi. The Librarians_. 42
LETTER III.
_The same subject continued_. 64
LETTER IV.
_The same subject continued_. 82
LETTER V.
PARIS. _Some Account of the early printed and rare Books in the Royal Library_. 101
LETTER VI.
_Conclusion of the Account of the Royal Library. The Library of the Arsenal_. 144
LETTER VII.
_Library of Ste. Genevieve. The Abbe Mercier St. Leger. Library of the Mazarine College, or Institute. Private Library of the King. Mons. Barbier, Librarian_. 169
_Introduction to Letter VIII_. 209
LETTER VIII.
_Some Account of the late Abbe Rive. Booksellers. Printers. Book Binders_. 214
LETTER IX.
_Men of Letters. Dom Brial. The Abbe Betencourt. Messrs. Gail, Millin, and Langles. A Roxburghe Banquet_. 251
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tou
- 2: I speak here of the principal Boulevards of those
- 3: And the entrances to the caffes
- 4: Are the Gardens of the Thuileries
- 5: Inaction of an equally huge white or gray bear who
- 6: The advantage both of the Thuileries and Louvre is
- 7: And more particularly the MINT
- 8: The Place de Greve during the Revolution
- 9: The Rue Vivienne is comparatively short
- 10: Is an alto relievo subject of the slaughter of the Innocents
- 11: GERVAIS situated to the left
- 12: Or the clustered slim pilasters
- 13: Sulpice and the series of bas reliefs
- 14: Just as they pleased on the Sabbath day
- 15: The FONTAINE DE GRENELLE is almost entirely architectural
- 16: Andre des Arcs the Abbey of St
- 17: Crapelet has prefixed a Preface to his labours
- 18: 13 read and understand GRAHAME
- 19: General description of the bibliotheque du roi
- 20: Van Praet would come into the second room
- 21: From the Cabinet des Medailles at Paris
- 22: Comprising the upper and lower globe rooms
- 23: Displayed within glazed frames upon the wainscot
- 24: Christopher now in the library of St
- 25: Gail is accompanied by the assistant librarians MM
- 26: There is however another medal
- 27: Crapelet might have considered this confession as a reason
- 28: A portrait of each Evangelist is prefixed to the title
- 29: Prayer book of charles the bald
- 30: It was deposited in a monastery at Poissy
- 31: BREVIARE DE BELLEVILLE Octavo
- 32: This memorandum has the signature of Flamel
- 33: It is a large and splendid folio
- 34: The calendar occupies a space of about six inches by four
- 35: 30 Bibliographical Decameron
- 36: Not very long before which I suspect the MS
- 37: Apparently of the beginning of the XVth
- 38: The colophon assigns to it the date of 1344
- 39: Divided into four compartments
- 40: Is a most interesting illumination
- 41: The ladies have the high cauchoise cap or bonnet
- 42: This letter is signed by Le Breton
- 43: I suspect this copy to be rather cropt
- 44: It is THE LAST in which the name of Peter Schoiffher
- 45: Van Praet thinks it otherwise complete
- 46: Of which fac similes have been given by me to the public
- 47: Van Praet paused J'ai balance were
- 48: Printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz
- 49: Seem to have faded and been retouched
- 50: Printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz
- 51: For a small cluster of CAXTONS and MACHLINIAS
- 52: Printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz
- 53: The vellum is exceedingly beautiful
- 54: PARABOLES de MAISTRE ALAIN De Lille Printed by Verard
- 55: It is printed in Ulric Han's larger roman type
- 56: These Scholia are written in a small
- 57: Budaeus was the tutor of Francis
- 58: 47 Since bound in blue morocco by Thouvenin
- 59: 11 or to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana
- 60: And genuine margins printed UPON VELLUM
- 61: And formerly belonging to Grolier
- 62: This volume is also a peculiarity in the Aldine department
- 63: Van Praet said he had never observed
- 64: Brunet senior found it in the garret of a monastery
- 65: Lhystoire de Guy de vvarwich Cheualier dagleterre c
- 66: The Seys Romances del Cid Ruy Diaz de Biuar
- 67: Les nobles prouesses et vaillances de Galien restaure
- 68: At bottom sold at Paris par Jehan de Bonfons
- 69: And that the genuine Aldine volume
- 70: GENEVIEVE exhibits a local of a very imposing
- 71: Has its margins scribbled upon
- 72: Printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz
- 73: Surely this copy is the ne plus ultra of a VELLUM ALDUS
- 74: The celebrated Pingre was chief librarian of the Ste
- 75: And his own librarian BIGNON
- 76: Mercier laughed at the project
- 77: Printed by Fust and Schoiffher Without Date
- 78: I suspect it has been cropt in its second binding
- 79: That of Peiresc has considerable expression
- 80: You enquire whether Monsieur BARBIER
- 81: Upon vellum in seven folio volumes
- 82: Barbier has rather a high notion
- 83: The Abbe Liblond died at St
- 84: 103 When Lord Spencer was at Paris in 1819
- 85: Peu de temps apres l'impression du Voyage de M
- 86: Barbier was beyond suspicion on this head
- 87: Crapelet 120 was prefixed a Preface
- 88: Qu'au lieu de cent exemplaires
- 89: Crapelet m'a attaque et je me suis defendu
- 90: Morenas has been indeed a great traveller
- 91: The principal mart for booksellers
- 92: Debure are as straight forward
- 93: His VELLUM VALDARFER is of course considered
- 94: Renouard also took occasion to tell me that
- 95: Chardin is above the mean height
- 96: 145 With Chardin I close my bibliopolistic narrative
- 97: Of the famous Lusiad just mentioned
- 98: Bozerian undoubtedly had his merits
- 99: 122 See the Bibliographical Decameron
- 100: Renouard is a VERY rich man
- 101: Renouard obtained it at a public sale in Paris
- 102: Crapelet has appended one very silly
- 103: Bulmer never printed a Shakspeare in 4to
- 104: Or Idee analytique de la Reliure
- 105: In company with the Abbe Betencourt
- 106: The Abbe Betencourt moralised aloud
- 107: Millin has been a great traveller
- 108: Langles admires and speaks our language
- 109: Langles about the history of books during the Revolution
- 110: Ycleped the Fables of Pfister
- 111: Rather than the Abbe Betencourt
- 112: Two vellum copies were printed
- 113: I subjoin the following autograph
- 114: Au vice president du Roxburghe Club
- 115: In the xxth chapter of his iid book of Adversaria
- 116: The Marquis de Chateaugiron was in the chair
- 117: All the world has heard of the famous DENON
- 118: The card of Denon was worth possessing
- 119: We will call Denon the Third
- 120: Whatever be the merits of Denon
- 121: In the Duke of Devonshire's Missal
- 122: But every head is safe with Andrieu
- 123: That of the late Abbe Barthelemi
- 124: Apparently by Mignard in a very fresh and perfect state
- 125: This is not only considered as the chef d'oeuvre of Rigaud
- 126: Than this estimable portrait of Marmontel
- 127: What is this singular portrait
- 128: To the magnificent picture of Diana and Endymion
- 129: But if I pat the right cheek of Canova with one hand
- 130: Et nous autres ce que nous pouvons
- 131: Since the sale of the Silvestre Collection
- 132: Occupy 47 pages of the Catalogue
- 133: 185 Purchased for the gallery at ALTHORP
- 134: Willemin is among the most enthusiastic
- 135: France hardly boasts of an indigenous Antiquary
- 136: Is probably the chef d'oeuvre of Madame Jaquotot
- 137: If the hands of the Horatii were not ill drawn
- 138: LIGNON is the prince of portrait engravers
- 139: Laugier has not yet reached his full powers of maturity
- 140: Benard did not very strenuously combat these observations
- 141: Lithography will have a pernicious effect
- 142: The rubbish piled against the posts
- 143: Crapelet drily and pithily says
- 144: From Ville Parisis to Meaux
- 145: And saw from thence the village of Jouarre
- 146: The first post station is Parois
- 147: Dizier is rather a large place
- 148: We drank tea at Toul but first proceeded to the church
- 149: There was a Girardet chief painter to Stanislaus
- 150: Drawer after drawer was pulled out
- 151: Dined at Blamont the succeeding post town
- 152: It was just two leagues from Sarrebourg
- 153: The next post town was Saverne
- 154: From Ittenheim we darted along yet more swiftly than before
- 155: All the way from Paris to Strasbourg
- 156: In which Geyler used to deliver his lectures
- 157: All this time Strasbourg was under the power
- 158: Are four sculptured compartments
- 159: Of which the exterior is open work
- 160: And is much lower than the nave
- 161: That the famous Strasbourg Clock
- 162: This could not be a coeval inscription
- 163: Ohmacht is also the sculptor of Koch's monument
- 164: Even the stained glass of the cathedral
- 165: BY MENTELIN in his second character
- 166: Hussner was a citizen of Strasbourg
- 167: These romances are called Tyturell and Partzifal
- 168: For the completion of libraries
- 169: The Robertsau is a well peopled and well built suburb
- 170: In the Bibliographical Decameron
- 171: As well as closing my Strasbourg despatches
- 172: Such a termination is pretty general throughout Strasbourg
- 173: Considered that of Strasbourg as the common parent
- 174: I send you a specimen of the patois
- 175: Levrault seemed surprised for truly
- 176: 229 You have heard me mention the name of OHMACHT
- 177: Hermann says that there may yet be seen